My Senior year Integrated studio, I was one of two Interior students with the rest being Architecture.
Our Prompt was to make our own prompt, program, and project. And the structure of the building would be made of CLT, since our visiting professors were all Waugh Thistleton Architects in London, England.
We started by studying all we could on Fayetteville AR.
My favorite part of Fayetteville (it's funk) kept popping up in my research. These unique and creative things make Fayetteville a special place.
So my proposed program was to make a place that would encourage the funk, without making it lame.
This place is The Right Brain. An artist in residency program with a public studio attached. The challenge is that the only art materials used have to be trash or second hand materials.
This place needs to be accessible to all, by car, walking, bus, or any preferred transportation.
The chosen site is walkable from the University, across the street from a funky feature, along the Razorback Greenway trail, and on the site of a concrete company.
The Idea of using trash to make art was used in the form of the two buildings. The old dilapidated rock bins for the shape of the apartment, and the shed for the form of the
The Concrete company is pushed to the side of the site with the railroad and blocked away with trees to make their footprint smaller and more efficient.
Above and below show the apartment for whatever artist is currently in residency. The Curve inside is from the resemblance of the studio, and there is a debris wall made of trash from the site and concrete from the concrete company. The stairs lead to a rooftop deck that can view the art park between the apartment and the studio.
The Studio-
The view above is from the main parking area. The Ribs are CLT and mimic the arch of the existing shed that is still inside the studio, serving as the trash intake cleaning area.
The view below is if someone was walking off the heavily trafficked greenway trail, with the art park to the far left. The hope is that students or any people needing a creative outlet could stumble on this site and be invited in to hang out, or make art!
The inside would hopefully grow in messiness and art making. The materials on shelves would serve as a light filter shelved along the glass walls. This was my favorite project and studio and it was the most architecture-heavy one yet. I learned so much from Andrew Waugh and his team!
This project is now one I hope to in some form turn into reality one day!